Deathwake
July 17, 2022, 6:46am
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That doesn’t control for totally separate ecosystems, like the shadow biosphere theory or a tidally locked world where one half has ammonia oceans and the other water, but yes, in carbon based lifeforms on ordinary planets you aren’t wrong.
50gens:
codon to amino acid type
also remember we only use 20 amino acids and four nucleotide, and that you dont necessarily need the 3 base pairs to an amino acid, and that different compound balances or enzymes might result in proteins folding oddly, or the DNA mRNA tRNA cycle could be different, or the lifeforms could have something weird and small like gut bacteria that kill the other one.
On that note:
Old post in another thread
look into fetal development, everything happens in a very specific order, in very specific ways, and it’s tied to hundreds of millions of years of evolution. every species alters it a little, even humans and chimps have some differences. imagine the differences youd get if your biochemistries ran on different principles. every fetus would develop like a blob. yes, you could find a mix that “works”, but it would just be a blob that doesnt come out a miscarriage. yes, there is a fix, entirely making your own fetal development process, and a biochemistry inspired by the creature you want to hybridize, but that isnt hybridization, thats playing God to arbitrarily make new animals, which arent connected to the originals, just based on them. closer to the difference between the US and Rome than the deep south and Liberia, if you get that youre a nerd by the way.
Here you go. I quoted it so you could read it. It’s also Imperfect so I’ll explain again. Take, a jaw. In mammals the zygote becomes a blob, elongates, gets some foldy stuff that looks like gill, gets a mouth, and then an anus. The gill-like things become the jaw bones, and three ear bones of the animal. The ear bones are involved because ancient tetrapods heard with their jaws made of four bones each, but mammals evolved specialized ears out of the bones associated with the joints.
In contrast an ant just grows some spikes off their skin to bust out of the egg and after being born develop little leg things, some of which fold into mouthparts. Also in ants the hole that develops first is the anus, and the body plan is subtly flipped upside down.
Imagine both of those happening at once. On one half would be tons of ant legs , lots of them trying to fold into various body parts but other stuff getting in the way, and on the other there would be a bunch of foldy structures trying to become jaws and ears but getting immobilized by the proto-exoskeleton and opposite that on the same side the mammalian tailbone would be preventing the ant genes from folding their legs into a freaking mouth on the creatures butt. Remember: ants treat hole a like an anus while mammals treat it like a mouth. Same with hole b but reversed. No digestive system is going to survive developing in ten way and four directions at once.
So yeah genetics isn’t the only issue
yes, there is a fix, entirely making your own fetal development process, and a biochemistry inspired by the creature you want to hybridize, but that isnt hybridization, thats playing God to arbitrarily make new animals, which arent connected to the originals, just based on them. closer to the difference between the US and Rome than the deep south and Liberia, if you get that youre a nerd by the way.
Retcon that to also include custom genetics or picking one
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